Wichita eagle., 1887-10-16
THE SUGAR INTEREST.
A New Source Of Wealth for Southern
Kansas.

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ton whether there was anything In tn
recent discoveries at Fort Scott In th
manufacture of sugar from sorghum tina
would prove profitable to our section of tn
country. In regard to this process Com
missioner Coleman recently said:
The experiments consist in the trial o
new process in making sugar IN thi
country which dispenses entirely @i,h tn
costly and pCnderous mills and steam en-
gines, etc, and use far. simpler ard les
expensive method of extracting the juice
by which all the saccharine matter is OBJ
tanned, while by the former methods from
80 to 40 per cent, ON an average, Of tn,
juice, even with the southern sugar cane
is left In the cane after passing through
the mill, and with sorghum still larger
quantity, because of greater difficulty
la extracting The new process is
called the diffusion or saturation pro,
CESS. The cane Is cut into chips and
passed into battery Of twelve cells, each
holding a ton of chips. Hot water is then
applied, which rapidly exhausts the
saccharine matter, and go thoroughly that
there Is scarcely trace Of 1t left. The
cells are entirely practical. being speedily
filed, manipulated and empfied, one man
attending the entire operation. The pro-
cess Is as rapid as the old method
less costly, and enables the manufacturer
to secure all the juice instead If about half
as heretofore Similar experiments We e
made last year, but the cutters machinery
and the method were all new here, and
difficulties occurred which could not be
overcome at once. Some so 0OO pounds Of
sugar were, however, made last year,
though we considered the experiments a
failure.
sThe commissioner said: Having had
more time and the experience of last year
to guide us. am mere than pleased TO be
able to say that all the difficulties seem
now TO have bten overcome, and no -four
ing mill is more surely turning out its
quota of -four than is the sugar works 81
Fort Scott, Kan, turning out its quota OF
sugar today, and sugar Of The best quality,
polariziDg 1913 o. The mill Is capable of
working up every twenty four hours $50
tons Of enc, making ther, from 49,
900 pounds of sugar or nor
From the frs. swinging in the
cen,rifugals, from 100 TO ll5 pounds of
sugsr per ton of cane was obtained and
about twenty pounds are expected from
the second swinging. A yield Of from 10
10 Is tons per acre was being SECURED which
would produce by this new process from
1 200 to 1900 pounds of sugar. This
sugar is worth by the car load 8 &c per
pound. left there after the first week.
work, and It was estimated that over one
hundred thousand pounds Of sugar had al
ready been made. The sugar WAS there to
be seen by every body.
''Nor Is this all. To every ton Of cane,
aside from the sugar in it, there are those 10
or 12 gallons Of molass, s, and also the seed
raised upon the cane, amounting TO about
25 bushel per acre, ard just As good for
feeding all kinds II stock as l. dian corn.
Iudeed the seed, il is estimated, will pay
r raising the cane, which Is merit o.
ses-ed by no other sugar pant.
When It Is remembered that the people |
Of these United States are ing more |
than 800 00G. 600 10 foreign 'untries each |
year for sugar, Mr. Colman's words are !
regarded with interest That Southern
Kansas is peculiarly adopted 10 the raising
Of sorghum Is 3 fact about which there Is
40 dispute. But how is the PR ducion Of
sugar 10 be made profitable, aud viii il pay
1ur farmers to raise the cane, are questions
hat are contip ually being asked. There
. one apparent obstacle in the way that
'tares farmers in the face, and That Is The
,ost of the machinery. Ii is admitted that
hese sugar mills will cost
90 much money to permit
If one being established In each school dis
riot or township even. There seems 10 be
10 doubt whatever Of The success Of the
lew process. But the unsolved probl, N
3: How Is The cane 10 be delivered 10 the
nills' The farmer can easily figure that
{ there is sugar mill in eight or nine
niles Of him that he can deliver one wagon
Dad Of one and epe-bslf tors per day.
Sng
,ood team he can raise sixty acres of
or gbrm just as sAiy IS be Can raise sixty
cres Of corb. That numbr Of acres II
orghum. taking The lowest estimate,
en- tons per acre, would make
90 tons Of cane, at the lowest
sIimsted price, two dollsrs per to +, would
lshc twelve bundled dollars. That looks )
relty well for GO acres Of Kansas land. .
Al the fsrmer will be amazed when he .
cures that his six hundred tens OF cane
u / mske four hundred lads, slloa ing
600 pounds 10 the losd. and il be should | :
sui one load escb dsy including Sun days c
,r The entire yesr be would not he able 10
liver bis cane II he pill. This could !,
], medied by erecting the mills In the $
,un,ry and planting The entire section 4
,rrroundipg the mill for two or Vi ee
lies to care A farmer remarked 10 :.
y presence o few days ago In